1.
At this moment, there were a few applause sounds not far away, people moved out of the way, and Mr. Ange, the lawyer in charge, came over with a kind face.
"It's really gratifying to see such young talents." He said, "They have a thorough understanding of the intention of this event and have first-class action capabilities."
He continued with a smile: "Here, I would like to take this opportunity to say that everyone, just let go, we provide unlimited resources for medical treatment, alcohol and clothing, and we are your ubiquitous backing."
He smiled kindly at Xia Tian: "I will send you a few more new clothes."
Xia Tian glanced at his dress, only to find that the hem was cut by a knife. He smiled brightly at Ange: "It's the same as the delivery."
"It's guaranteed to be exactly the same." The other party said, smiling at him very kindly, you can often meet this kind of smile after becoming a star.
Then Mr. Ang put down his glass and glanced at the others.
"In order to show our encouragement to young talents to actively participate in the activities, we also specially set up a valuable first kill reward for the first person to do it." He said.
Xia Tian raised his eyebrows, the banquet hall quickly quieted down, and everyone stared at the supervisor.
The reward for the first kill has not appeared for many years.
Ange beckoned, and a man in a neat black uniform came over, who looked like a butler in a big mansion. He held an equally black metal box shaped like a monster's egg.
The man opened the box carefully, as if showing off the treasure of the town house. The metal box was lined with crimson velvet, and at first glance it looked like a handful of dark blood, and something lay in it, a shadow in the blood.
The lawyer in charge picked it up and smiled at the crowd.
The next moment, a pitch-black dagger appeared out of nowhere in the hands of the lawyer in charge.
Some kind of unknown material covered the back of his hand at some point, like a dark river... Then Xia Tian realized that it was indeed flowing.
High-end nanomaterials.
Mr. Ang swung his dagger, his movements were quick, and he was very handsome as a fighter from the champion team back then. The blade instantly grew a large part in this wave, as if something in the air formed the blade for no reason. The dagger turned into a longsword.
He swung it again, blackness flowed, a jet-black arc flashed, and the long sword became a pitch-black whip.
Everyone in the room stared at the lawyer in charge, unable to take their eyes off the display of this series of weapons.
Xia Tian's eyes glowed, God knows how the current weapons manufacturers can create this kind of thing. This is by no means made by 3D printing. All its shapes are hand-designed and professionally optimized. It is the pinnacle of individual weapons in the upper city.
And from the professional point of view of a killing show star, this thing is absolutely first-class in killing people, and some functions are as good as a small army.
Xia Tian could almost hear the audience searching around on the terminal for what this was. The fourth round had been advertising since it hadn't even landed on the island, and now a beautiful large-scale advertisement finally appeared.
"Of course," said Mr. Angle, "I have disabled most of the weapon's functions. This is a game of succession, and everyone needs to show their talents, strategies, and force. The best stage for display is a stage with equal strength." The function of the Doomsday Beast is too powerful, and it can make you kill all directions without bringing anything with you when you are in the last days."
— This sentence is definitely an advertisement.
He solemnly handed over the weapon to Xia Tian, this scene must be highlighted in front of all the terminals in the world.
In the original form, the "Beast of Doom" looks like a stylized wolf, and the eyes of the beast are like black holes that can swallow everything. The moment Xia Tian took it over, relevant information automatically appeared on the contact lens, Xia Tian quickly scanned it, and found that the operation was not difficult, but it required a certain degree of proficiency. He decided that tonight he would have to get the hang of it right away.
Nanomaterials cover the palm, warm and soft, like holding the thinnest gauze in the upper city, but with the weight of death.
Xia Tian raised his hand, and the "Beast of Doom" grew under his palm, as if it was multiplying rapidly, more and more. Then a giant gun appeared in his hand.
The guns grow so slowly that the scene seems fantastical. It grew out of the air, almost as tall as Xia Tian himself, heavy and huge, full of metal and destructive energy flow texture, murderous, cold and scorching hot, it is a copy of his weapon in the Temple of War.
Xia Tian studied with great interest, and the murderous aura in his gestures was as cohesive as an entity. Although he knew that the current firearm function was disabled, the people around him still stayed away from him.
Xia Tian couldn't put it down, the lawyer in charge thoughtfully spared him time, then looked up at the others, and said, "And, I need to remind you, everyone should find weapons other than knives as soon as possible, the night here is not safe..."
At this moment, someone not far away uttered a scream, fell to the ground, clutched his neck, and blood continued to flow out. Another man stood next to him, holding a bloody fork.
Everyone present knew him, Qi Qing, a member of the previous champion team.
He is not tall and has a baby face. He looked at the lawyer in charge innocently and asked, "Is there any reward for the second kill?"
Summer loves his first kill prize, in Eric's words: "You must regret that it can't bear your children."
He was a little delirious with excitement, and really wanted to try to kill someone, but Bai Jing'an didn't intend to stop him.
The blade of the "Beast of Doom" can even be adjusted to a single molecule-but it is disabled, otherwise it will be too scary, and the firearm function is also not unlocked. With this thing, you can enter any doomsday game at will, and you can meet gods and kill gods, and Buddhas and Buddhas.
Bai Jing'an didn't know how much money it would take to make such a weapon, and only in the upper world would he spend such a huge amount of energy to make this kind of thing that looks like a work of art and can empty a building in a minute. The food problem in the lower city has not yet been solved, but they have advanced by leaps and bounds in the technology of individual killing, which is unstoppable.
"I don't even remember the last time the Killing Show had a first kill reward," Eric said.
"The third round of the 195th session." Bai Jing'an said.
The dinner party was over, and the team of four sat on the sofa in the living room of the four-person suite. There is a small bar here. Although there are no weapons, it provides a variety of daily killing supplies such as knives and forks.
"Are they really going to spread the 'Beast of Doom' all over the city?" Eric said, "This year's homicides in Uptown hit a record high."
"It won't reach the level of 'all over the city'," Wei Xi said, hovering over a dozen screens in front of him, "few people can afford it."
While speaking, the night outside the window was getting darker and darker here than outside.
It is said that the fourth round of the arena is not a full studio, but in fact it is just an improvement in technology, rather than any detail laissez-faire. All the celestial phenomena here are still fully controlled by the planning team, it is a huge and precise cage, and bloody scenes are staged.
Bai Jing'an glanced at Xia Tian, that person was concentrating on researching the weapon's function, and looked quite relaxed.
He was dragging a screen to help Wei Xi, but he couldn't help but devote a little energy to pay attention to Xia Tian, even though he was sitting there with a heaven-defying weapon, nothing would happen.
Eric continued: "As long as someone buys it, the price will come down soon. At least there will be a counterfeit version soon."
"But my 'cotton candy' is still unique." Xia Tian said.
— This is the name he gave his first kill reward. The lawyer in charge tried his best to persuade him to change it, but he was very firm.
"Let's stop worrying about weapons manufacturers for the time being, and go back to the topic of tactics." Eric said, "We are a joker, aren't we too showy now?"
"Give us a joke card, just to see the limelight." Bai Jing'an said, "We have no better way than to be tough."
He turned his head to look at Xia Tian who was caressing the new weapon, and said, "Who does the second group want to kill?"
The second group is delivered to your door.
This group of people came to spy on that night, probably because Xia Tian's first kill prize was too attractive. Eric shoves the juicer blade part up one of the faces, hits start, and it's horrific.
Xia Tian killed another, and the rest dispersed in horror.
That night, Wei Xi finally entered the surveillance network of the garden. The number of cameras was 1,173, and most of them were distributed within the buildings, while the garden was a dark unknown area.
And among the countless small screens, they saw something terrible.
Many of the shots are almost pure black, and these are the edges of the buildings, facing the garden. There is no light in the whole forest, and there is a strong ominous and unknown feeling. And there is no camera inside the garden.
For a moment, they saw something flashing through the darkness, invisible but not human.
Several people exchanged glances, and gathered all the outward-facing cameras together to see if there were any similar situations. Bai Jing'an saw a hidden river not far from their rear window, with reeds as tall as a person growing. Under the faint light from the curtains, something was dragging a contestant's body into the grass. to a pair of feet...
For an instant, the creature that tugged at it flicked past, avoiding the light. All they saw was a pale shadow that moved like a beast, but in some ways it was more...human.
Several people were silent for a while, obviously, this is the trump card of the third arena - the threat from the depths of darkness.
And no matter what that guy wanted to do when he went out in the middle of the night, his skills were not good enough. He was caught by a highly mutated creature in the dark and dragged into the depths of the garden.
Bai Jing'an was sure he had never seen this kind of creature in the relevant illustration book, it was a new product of the TV station.
He remembered that the lawyer in charge had also said that the night here was not peaceful, but he was interrupted, and he didn't mean to emphasize it again.
He stared at the group of screens, there was no camera at a farther angle, and there was such a dangerous place outside.
But he also knew that even so, there would still be quite a few people outside. Danger never stops people like them.
That night, Bai Jing'an had a dream.
He dreamed of Bai Lin.
Although he must have seen him, he couldn't remember it at all. Even in his dreams, he was like a still frame.
He stood on the street in the lower city, held a gun, and looked down at the corpse at his feet. He was wearing a rough white T-shirt and gray loose serge trousers. The street lamps were very bright, shining on him like the light of a stage, a seemingly simple but grand and deadly stage.
The T-shirt was attached to the body, outlining the slightly green lines of the young man. This body was still growing, with slender hands and feet, full of energy, and extremely dangerous. The light shone on his clothes and skin, making him glow.
His facial features still have the childishness of a young man, but they are sharp and steep, and there is no ambiguity in his whole body. He has decided to grow up since he was born.
But the part of his human color faded under the strong light, and he stood in the depths of the darkness, like an overly clear and arrogant ghost.
The camera zoomed out, and there were countless corpses piled up at Bai Lin's feet, spreading out in the dark street.
There is a saying in the upper world that the Holocaust has always been utterly unacceptable to the people of Uptown, like a bone stuck in their throat, unable to swallow and unable to spit it out. So people keep talking about it, and trying to understand.
But Bai Jing'an doesn't think so... well, it may be true for some locals, but people keep talking about it because it does have endless entertainment effects.
Too many people have died, and there are too many stories in the dark, which cannot be recorded by hundreds of thousands of cameras.
The image of a leader that Bai Lin has assembled over the decades, as well as the enormous attention he has attracted, is created by the countless corpses around him.
If they are the people on the stake in the entertainment society, then Bai Lin's stake is the highest. More than three million lives were lost, and the firewood under his feet towered into the sky.
The entertainment, dripping with blood, filled the air of Uptown, engulfing everything.
Bai Jing'an woke up as if he had a nightmare, his heart was beating very fast.
The sky had turned white, and he lay on the bed for a while, thinking that this dream was probably because he had been thinking about the situation outside before going to bed.
Although it is like being in a haunted house, it is never an isolated world, but the center of the spotlight. On the floating city, their reputation is getting stronger day by day, like firewood piled higher and higher under the feet of the burner.
As the value of goods rises, those people will no longer kill you brutally, but will pay more attention to you, create troubles, and look for higher value in you. And the way to embody this value is definitely a nightmare.
in trouble. And soon.
2.
Bai Jingan didn't see Xia Tian when he got up.
He was on the last shift in summer, so he might have gone to the yard. Bai Jing'an poured himself a glass of juice, walked to the window, and saw him immediately.
As the sun was rising, he was standing on the path at the gate of the courtyard, talking to a girl with shoulder-length black hair. He smiled happily and gestured to her.
Bai Jing'an is very familiar with the way he flirts with people, it seems that the sun of the whole world is shining on him, making it difficult to look away. He must have been liked since he was a child, but some likes are fatal.
He took a sip of juice and watched this pleasing scene. Xia Tian seemed to be gesturing to the girl for an explosion effect, she laughed and looked at him intently, the sunlight reflected in her eyes, shining slightly.
A large bush of Jerusalem artichokes bloomed beside the path, glowing in the sun. Everything looks beautiful, like a scene from a movie. Bai Jing'an thought, it's a pity that it's not a romance story, but a horror movie.
Noticing that he was watching, Xia Tian waved his hand at him, Bai Jingan raised his cup and greeted him back. The girl also smiled at him and waved her hand, said something to Xia Tian, her fingertips brushed his arm, turned and left.
If the scene of the killing show is to be real, you can't just let men get together.
That's fine with the Smash Bros., but the later the free event, the more exciting the plot will be. In some scenes, only a single gender haunts, which is fake in any way. For example, this time, so many of them live in a luxurious garden without a single woman, it will only make this group of people look perverted, and there is no credibility at all.
For this reason, the organizers have come up with various methods. In addition to guest appearances, there are a large number of NPCs of the opposite sex.
Some of these people signed up by themselves, some had contracts with TV stations, and there were also newcomers in the entertainment industry who wanted to get acquainted with each other. Going to a kill show is dangerous, of course, but risk is never an issue in Uptown. Those who sign up don't care, and those who have to come have no choice.
Some people think that these NPCs will be very willing to have sex with the contestants. They cannot be said to be selling themselves.
But no matter what they think, in the eyes of the audience, these people are here to add color to the game, and their choices can highlight the personal charm of the players, and that is all the value.
Xia Tian walked back to the room, and Bai Jing'an heard Eric say from behind: "You know whoever you sleep here, they can see the whole process, right?"
"I didn't want to go to bed with her. She gave me a phone number and said that I could call her after the end." Xia Tian said, "She works in the botanical garden in Fujin Seven City, and she knows the names of all the wildflowers."
"I didn't expect you to be innocent."
"Just go out for a meal!" Xia Tian said, "She's not bad, the botanical garden has exercised her killing show contract, she came to take care of the garden, not to sleep with the contestants. I didn't know there was such a contract working in the botanical garden."
"There are contracts like this everywhere." Bai Jing'an said.
"I will go out alive, and then call her." Xia Tian said.
I wish, Bai Jing'an thought. When Xia Tian first arrived in Shangcheng, he still hoped that he would have good luck, but now there is only a nightmare left. He should be the type who attracts bees and butterflies in the lower city, but no one dares to date him when he is in the upper city, but there are still a lot of perverted eyes staring at him. This is a bloody and nasty world.
The girl looks very nice, and with luck, maybe everything will go well, and the house will be more lively... He will be happy and find a place to belong...
He deserves to be happy.
After eating, they started looking for treasure.
In the setting of the fourth round of the event, the deceased Mr. Shi stuffed a lot of "treasure objects" in various places in the garden, and secretly placed instruction clues. Once the collection is complete, the treasure map can be unlocked and the right of inheritance.
Bai Jing'an is sure that it won't be too difficult to find, the killing show is not a test of intelligence, but to see everyone kill together.
The best way is to get a lot of treasure map fragments, it is best to have one, if you want to get the whole one, you can only grab it from others.
They originally planned to find a treasure map and lure people to grab it, but before they even started planning, someone came to the door by themselves.
At that time, Eric saw a shrub with red fruit and walked over to study it. Like many soldiers from the lower city, he was full of curiosity about strange plants.
Wei Xi looked at it for a while, and asked him what kind of plant it was. It was the first time that Xia Tian heard him say so many words.
Xia Tian also listened curiously, the sun was shining brightly in the garden, and the berries were as red as flames. Eric leaned down and picked a bunch. Wei Xi said that this thing was not edible, it was too sour, and it was purely for viewing.
Xia Tian tasted one and nodded silently.
Those people should be impromptu. A total of seven, is the joint of the two damaged teams.
They surrounded them quietly and professionally.
Xia Tian was throwing away the remaining berries in his hand. He turned his head sideways and glanced from the corner of his eyes, and found that these people had surrounded all possible escape directions, and they all looked like murderers.
He turned his head to look at Bai Jing'an, who was standing in the sunlight and suddenly smiled at him. Bai Jing'an has always been a gentle and refined type, but at this moment he laughed so murderously that it was dazzling.
Xia Tian also subconsciously smiled at him, then turned to look at the few people surrounding him.
The leader has a rough but delicate beard, these days killers have to rely on their faces for food. Realizing that Xia Tian discovered them, he immediately said: "Don't be impulsive—"
He shook the dagger in his hand, and the blade reflected the sharp light in the sunlight.
In the initial stage when everyone's weapons are still concentrated on table knives, paper cutters, fruit knives, kitchen knives, boning knives and ice picks, this is quite an achievement.
"We don't want to cause trouble, as long as the first kill is rewarded." He said to Xia Tian, staring at him, and tightened the hilt of his sword uncomfortably, "Just throw it over."
Xia Tian and Bai Jing'an exchanged glances, the man obviously sensed some danger from the eyes, and quickly raised his voice: "Think clearly! 'Beast of Doom' now only has the function of cold weapons, and there are seven of us!"
"Beast of Doom" flowed into Xia Tian's palm, and the touch felt heavy, like death. The icon of the world's top combat weapon flashed in his right pupil, and every cell in his body was tightened, ready to face killing and death.
In this colorful hell, he can be said to be the character standing at the top of the battle field.
"Listen, the hot weapon function will be available soon, and you definitely don't want the other party to get hurt—" the bearded man said, then suddenly stopped, staring at Wei Xi who was standing behind the bushes, trying to pretend that he didn't exist.
Xia Tian could clearly feel his shock, although he didn't know why this person was surprised. At this stage of the competition, would he and Bai Jing'an stay in the grove and wait for someone to attack
At that moment, the already extremely tense atmosphere snapped like a bowstring.
Eric made a move.
When these people surrounded him, he didn't show up. Now he sneaked up behind an attacker and grabbed his neck.
The opponent was also experienced in many battles, and his reaction was extremely fast. He realized the crisis the moment he made a move, and grabbed his arm. But Eric took the lead, he quickly threw the knife into the other hand, and stabbed him.
The knife stabbed silently, and the opponent stretched out his hand to block it, and the blade directly pierced the palm of his hand.
He let out a muffled grunt, and Eric pulled out the knife—
The moment Eric started, Xia Tian also moved.
His movements were sudden and swift without warning. He turned sideways and threw the "Beast of Doom" out.
No one expected the move, and it pierced straight through the attacker on his left, through the blocking hand, through muscle and bone, and down the throat.
At the same time, Xia Tian had already rushed to this person, and before the body fell down, he drew out the daggers one by one and struck back with his backhand.
The second person who rushed over was holding a long knife, and quickly grabbed Xia Tian's arm. His blade was only a few centimeters away from Xia Tian's long hair, but he could no longer move forward.
The fight lasted only a few seconds.
Xia Tian withdrew the weapon coldly, it had grown into a four-foot-long sword, piercing the attacker's head. With his movements, blood and brains splashed out in a bloody arc.
"Beast of Doom" is a high-end weapon, it is not easy to use, but Xia Tian seems to be born to use anything to fight and kill people, no matter it is a piece of iron wire or nano-combined smart materials.
He turned his head to look at the third person rushing over.
This person has no fighting intention, the knife swung indiscriminately, Xia Tian grabbed his neck and cut his throat.
He let go of his hand, and the corpse fell at his feet. The prize for the first kill obviously blinded many people yesterday, and even their lives were lost. Seriously, it's just a bit of an advantage at this level of the tournament, and hot weapons will show up soon, so it's not worth the risk.
It's really a society where consumption kills, Xia Tian sighed, this is only the second day, their team has already killed more than ten people, the "throne" given by the organizer is really not easy to sit on.
Bai Jing'an's dagger—or a fruit knife—was pulled out from the temple of the bearded man, and the man fell to the ground, dead immediately.
This person saw that Wei Xi and Eric were there before, and he was probably confused. He actually wanted to hijack him, and it was like sending him to his door.
As soon as he pulled the knife out, he dodged another bread knife attack sideways, and the dagger in his hand sliced across the attacker's lower abdomen. The other party bent over in pain, and at that moment, he inserted the knife between his eyes.
The second person fell, Bai Jingan scanned the battlefield and found that the beard was not dead, so he walked over and made another stab.
After Xia Tian killed three sneak attackers, he turned his head to look at the battlefield, and saw the last guy who ran away, so he threw the sword in his hand.
Erik settled the fight, and when he turned his head it was over. The fight takes less than a minute from start to finish.
He saw Summer walk up to the corpse through the spring grass and wildflowers, step on the man's back, and draw his sword.
His movements were brisk but full of strength, and he killed four people in an instant. There was blood all over his feet, but he was as brisk as a child playing.
The sun shines on him, so handsome. But anyone who is familiar with killing and death can only see the darkness, and the irreversible killing intent and anger.
That abyss is hidden under a handsome face, reflecting the brilliant but cold and deadly light under the sun of the studio in the world.
Wei Xi stood by the bushes, still maintaining the posture of explaining the berries to Eric, feeling that the killing was over before it even started.
Not far away, Xia Tian threw the first kill prize, his movements were brisk and murderous. The "Beast of Doom" disappeared, turned into a blackness and crawled into his sleeve, like a fantasy creature.
There was some blood on his hands, Xia Tian didn't care to wipe it on his clothes, anyway, the organizer will change it for him.
He walked back and said, "What I don't understand is, where did they have the confidence to think that seven people can handle us."
"Because they think there are only two of us." Bai Jing'an said.
"How can two people be alone at this stage of the competition?" Xia Tian said, "I still want to pretend that only one person set the trap, who will believe it."
"They thought we deliberately left other people in the woods." Bai Jing'an said.
Several people were stunned for a while, and Eric gave a meaningful "oh".
"Why?" Xia Tian said.
"They think you and Bai Jing'an are having fun here." Eric said.
Xia Tian looked at him, then at Bai Jing'an, and laughed out loud. He patted Bai Jingan's shoulder hard, and for a moment he couldn't speak from laughter, and the latter waved his hand away.
"I suddenly remembered," Xia Tian said, "Something happened once, and I was thinking that if someone asked me for an alibi, I said I was having fun with Xiaobai, and he must have given me a false certificate. But I think it's too fake, Bai Jing'an!"
He grabbed the shoulder of the person next to him, looked at him with a long way to go, and said, "This alibi will finally be available in the future!"
He even leaned over to kiss his hair, Bai Jingan struggled hard, but did not dodge. Xia Tian happily embraced him and walked out, saying: "We will make persistent efforts!"
Bai Jing'an struggled for two more times without success, let him embrace him with a look of lovelessness, and listened to him envisioning various schemes to lure the enemy, thinking that most of them are quite feasible.
"We want to hold hands and walk through the woods!" Xia Tian said.
"You have to go to the main residential area first," Bai Jing'an said, "It's useless to hold hands without anyone watching."
Xia Tian agreed, and the two of them discussed the details of the relationship between their lovers on the way back. Eric said to Wei Xi: "So our job is to follow behind and watch them show their affection?"